The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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W.P MILLER. of Westside, Pa, has a hen to
brag of. Ore day recently she laid an egg that
| was six inches and half long and eight inches
| and half around; and the next day she laid
| another that was six inches long and seven
inches and three-quarters in circumference.
THERE is n custom observed at the Prince of
Wales house which would be much liked by the
| men all over the world. The tides, scarfs and
ornamental bows embroidered by the women OF
| royal family are upholstered in with the cover
| ing of the furniture. No tides are constantly
| tumbling on the floor or getting away, and yet
| they are ornamental.
MONKEYS are the only animals besides man
| that have acquired the so-called morphia habit
One monkey like his master, fell into state of
| stupor and depression when deprived of an
| opium smoke for several days. To rabbits, how
| ever, morphia has been administered in enorm-
| ons doses for Notwithstanding eight grains
| daiy--and suddenly suppressed without evil
| dence of discomfort.
THERE are considerably over 60,000 persons
| confined at the present time in prisons in the
| United States. This is nearly nine times the
| number of prisoners in 1850 SO that, even
making allowance for increase of population,
| crime, or, at any rate punishment for crime, IS
| much more general now than then The West
| compares very fayorably with the East in re-
gard to the proportion OF prisoners to popula
| ton.
| at her home 100 Java street. Brooklyn, Z. D.,
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Fisher was subject
to heart disease and very timid during thunder
showers. During the shower ON Thursday she
had just kneeled at her bedside to pray when
| there was an unusually sharp flash and loud
peal of thunder. The poor woman shuddered
| for moment and then fell back upon the floor
| dead.
EDWARD A. LovELocK, of Troy, N. Y, lately
bought a young tree set in tub. He brought
it to his place of business and afterward noticed
bird fluttering around the tree This caused
him to make closer examination OF his pur-
| chase. and he discovered in the branches of the
tree the nest of lark. There were five eggs in
the nest, and the bird had followed him home.
Mr.. Lovelock is giving careful attention to his
new family.
ROCKFORD, ILL.,, PAPER says that years ago
old Squire Ephram Sumner, pioneer settler of
Rockford county, once swan across the Peca-
tonica river in cold weather and walked in his
wet clothing four miles to marry a young
couple. All the fee he got was Soc; and when
he had kissed the bride and said God bless you,
my children, y he trudged back to the Pecatonica
with the well-earned coin in his pocket, and
swan the stream again to get home.
WHILE California boat was at Blanco Bay,
Lower California, an officer discovered a rock of
seven cubic feet covered with strange inscrip-
| TONS supposed to be by the Toltecs, in the
seventh century. The hieroglyphcs translated,
read: Rising sun drives perpetual Isetac
| Mixcoalt The spirit of the Tornado, which
| strikes with flint and devourS four moons. Mix
coalts one eye visible in the clouds" The
| discovery of the rock has created sensation
| among scientific people there
| AT Viscount Cranborne's wedding the Marquis
of Salisbury wore a shockingly bad hat 1t
was, says the Liverpool Courier even shabbier
than Mr.. Gladstone's, and apparently of about
the same quality as that of the late Earl of
| Derby, who was reputed to wear the worst hat
in Parliament The late Duke of Westminster
| used to be noticed for his plain, not to say
mean, apparel AS rule, the Commoners are
better dressed than the Lords, and the shiniest
hats at Westminster are on the heads of the
Parnellite members.
TIE New York girls have the amateur photo
graphing craze, and have organized the Camera
Club. Mrs. J. Wells Champney, wife of the
artist and author of Three Vassar Girls is
| among the most enthusiastic of the New York
| Photographic guild Mrs. Constable, wife of
| the millionaire merchant spends all of her
available leisure in Photography. The Marquise
| de Mores, who used to be Miss Hutton, and is
now the wife of the Marquis of cowboy fame,
has done some of the cleverest work of any
| New York amateur.
CHARLES Cox, aged IS, works for Morrow R.
Skinner, in Roxbury, Pa. One day while he was
| walking along the road about mile from there
he saw rattlesnake crossing the road ahead of
| him. He ran up and before the snake could coil
caught it with one hand around the neck and
\ with the other near the tail Grasping it tight
| ly in that way he carried the snake to the vii
| lage the serpent sounding its rattles, of which
the boy held the snake his employer ex-
| tracted its poison fangs with pair of nippers
| and it was placed in a cage.
A LITTLE BOY in Philadelphia was flying kite
on the housetop. Another lad two or three
houses away was engaged in the same diversion.
| One opened his mouth to call to the other and
| just then flock of swallows came flying by.
| One of them, evidently confused, flew against
the boys face, driving his bill clean through his
| cheek. In his agony the lad closed his teeth
| hard and held the bird fast. The swallow was
| partly stunned by the shock, and. with the bird
| sticking out from his cheek, the lad ran down
stairs to his mother. She removed the bird and
| it now occupies a handsome cage in the house.
and its owners wouldn't part with it under any
consideration.
A CHARMING young literary smuggler was
| bringing Tauchnitz novel with her from Ant
| werp to England. She confided her intention to
an agreeable stranger whom she met on the
way; At London bridge he reciprocated her
| frankness by telling her that he was custom
| house officer, and demanding that the novel
| should be given up. But have not finished il
yet, she murinured pleadingly. Where have
| you got to-" he asked. She pointed with her
| taper finger Gently taking the book from the
| fair smuggler he tore away what she had read
| and threw il into the river returning the por-
| ton that so precious to her with the Gus
| tomary bow.
THE still charming and beautiful consort of the
| Prince of Wales is VIGOROUSLY lacking in the
power of keeping her engagements She is con-
! stantly ten minutes late. So marked is this
characteristic that when circumstances necess:-
| tate her presence at an exact time she is pur-
| posely miSiDformed as to the hour A writer in
| the Brooklyn Standard says that he was once
| on board the Osborne, one of the royal yachts
| The prince and princess were using the boat for
| their annual summer cruise. ball had been
| given In their honor at Cowes and the prince in
| full dress was pacing the deck awaiting the ad-
| vent of the princess from her dressing ROOM
| Finally the little lady made her appearance but
| az per usual ten minutes late. Tut tut, :" re-
marked II. r. H., irTitably, late again, Prin-
| cess. Some of these days you will be precisely
| ten minutes late for heaven"'
SEVEN years ago the Dane Carl Hansen gave
some performances in hypnotism in Berlin,
which, after few repetitions, were suppressed
! by the police. The educated Berliners took no
interest in the matter, as they looked on it as a
! phase Of spiIftualistic humbug In the mean
| time, however, Preger and others have ex-
planned the scientific aspect of hypno-
tism, so that when Hansen returned to
Berlin n few weeks ago, he drew crowd
| ed houses, and not moleSted by the
| police. Hansen first noticed his magnetic"
| powers when he was boy; and some years later
he gave his first public exhibitions in Australia
The business proved profitable; he now possesses
magnificent villa near Copenhagen, and only
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